(10 hours in transition: my whole body tensed up at that. Eek, is about the mildest thing I have to say about that.)
The scare tactics about interventions, the manipulative and downright deceptive use of study results, the moralism and smugness, the sexism. This book hits every checkbox for what is fucked up about the natural childbirth movement.
THANK YOU FOR THIS. It boggles my mind the judgmental smugness that is brought to every decision a woman makes about childbirth. (And breastfeeding, was another big one for me.) I thought we were in favor of people having freedom to make choices, here. Bleah.
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The scare tactics about interventions, the manipulative and downright deceptive use of study results, the moralism and smugness, the sexism. This book hits every checkbox for what is fucked up about the natural childbirth movement.
THANK YOU FOR THIS. It boggles my mind the judgmental smugness that is brought to every decision a woman makes about childbirth. (And breastfeeding, was another big one for me.) I thought we were in favor of people having freedom to make choices, here. Bleah.
The labor parts do sound interesting, though...